Entrustable professional activities (EPAS) are observable activities that need to be performed for a physician to meet the needs of their patients. This study will involve creation of a tool to evaluate assessment using simulated patient encounters for pediatric residents level of entrustment for Pediatric EPA 10, involving resuscitation and stabilization of an acutely ill patient.

The purpose of the study is to create culturally-informed sugary drink reduction messages for Black women. After they are created, we will test the message to see how effective they are at encouraging participants to drink fewer sugary drinks.

The purpose of this study is to find out if and how family members may impact weight loss in men enrolled in a weight loss intervention. This information will be used to improve family based weight loss programs.

Our medicine procedure service teaches ultrasound-assistance for lumbar punctures. We have developed a video-based electronic teaching module, as well as a spine model for ultrasound practice, to be used with this training. We plan to assess how this addition of teaching resources improves knowledge acquisition and retention and confidence in use of ultrasound for this procedure.

The purpose of this research study is to assess the patient-level, healthcare provider/system-level, and community-level barriers to resolving abnormal mammograms and initiation of treatment of breast cancer in the 3 geographic regions of North Carolina: the greater Charlotte area, the Northwest, and the Northeast. These areas include the following counties: Anson, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Stanly, Union, Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton, Wilson , Ashe, Alleghany, Surry, Stokes, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin, Forsyth, Avery, Caldwell, Alexander, Iredell, Davie, Davidson, Burke, Catawba, and Rowan. These barriers can include obtainment of biopsies and other diagnostic procedures for resolving abnormal mammograms abnormalities or breast symptoms, access to care providers after breast cancer diagnosis, and initiation of appropriate surgical, chemotherapy, and radiation treatments after diagnosis.

We are conducting interviews with residents and service providers across Edgecombe and Robeson Counties to support the development of the Whole Community Connection Program.

determine the acceptability, safety, preliminary effectiveness and overall feasibility of a prophylaxis-for-all approach.

The purpose of this project is to create and distribute a survey with the intent to collect data about the amount and quality of training critical care physicians receive regarding brain death (i.e., death by neurologic criteria). We are doing because teaching physicians about brain death is not standardized and the subject is complex.

The purpose of this study is to test the safety of the two study drugs, venetoclax and selinexor, and to find the highest dose of venetoclax and selinexor that can be given safely when it is combined with chemotherapy drugs (cytarabine or cytarabine and fludarabine). This study tests different doses of venetoclax and selinexor to see which dose is safer in children with leukemia.

The purpose of this study is to understand how managers/hiring committees distribute awards to employees and what factors they consider in their decisions. That is, how do managers/hiring committees think about the role of performance metrics in award distributions.